#Anti-J. K. Rowling

[thenightling]

In defense of John Lithgow

In defense of John Lithgow...

It's official. John Lithgow is going to play Dumbledore for the Harry Potter TV series.

I noticed John Lithgow is already getting a lot of hate for accepting the role and being treated as a transphobe by default. There's a very public open letter essentially telling him he's not an ally if he doesn't quit.

Here are some things to consider.

1. If he quits, it doesn't change how much money J. K. Rowling gets for the project. They would just find someone else.

2. John Lithgow just starred in a very pro LGBTQAI+ movie as a gay grandfather to a nonbinary grand-child. He is pro-nonbinary and trans rights and actively supported the community up to this point.

3. John Lithgow is from the US. This violates J. K. Rowling's stance for Dumbledore to only ever be played by NON-American (preferably UK or Irsh) actors). His casting specifically undermines her very firm stance that prevented Robin Williams from playing Hagrid in the movies and this casting choice IS a middle finger to J. K. Rowling.

Think about it. They chose a very vocally pro-LGBTQAI+ actor who just starred in an LGBTQAI+ family film about a gay grandfather and nonbinary grand child. And not just that. He's American. He's precisely the sort of person she does NOT want as Dumbledore. Consider this spite-casting. Notice J. K. Rowling has not commented yet about the casting. She is NOT happy and is probably under an NDA preventing her from speaking out against it. If she actually liked the casting you know she'd have said something by now.

So please don't think ill of John Lithgow over this.

He was also Emperor Norton in the very pro Queer The Sandman audio drama, which features nonbinary and trans actors and characters such as Mason Alexander Park as Desire and Reece Lyons as Wanda.

[safesoundxswift]

all these arguments about the new harry potter casting but all i can think is that every person involved in the series has willingly signed up to work with such an outspoken transphobe

[smol-trans-gerblin]

~A MESSAGE TO J.K. ROWLING~

When I was young, your writing inspired me. It made me hopeful. I hyperfixated on it for years, played Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit, drew my Patronus, and infodumped on my dad for hours on end. I turned my garage into Honeydukes for my eighth birthday, and put a drawing of Moaning Myrtle in my family's bathroom. My grandma and I watched the movies together, staying up late and complaining about the fact that Peeves didn't make an appearance. I idolized you.

Then I realized I was a transgender boy.

I read about what you'd said. How we were predators and r@p1sts. How trans women were just 'men in dresses'. How there were no trans kids. I lost that spark of happiness I used to get from seeing Platform 9 3/4 pins on people's bags, from finding fanfiction on ao3, from my Snitch replica that hung from my ceiling. My Harry Potter paperbacks, well-worn from taking them everywhere, were left to gather dust on my shelf.

And now this.

I am not looking for attention. I am not trying to "let complete strangers know I don't fancy a shag." I am not pretending I'm oppressed. I AM oppressed. Yesterday, I marched with thousands of people, to fight the people like you, who ARE oppressing us, who want us to disappear. I can't believe I loved you, I wanted to be you, I trusted you. And you betrayed me. You betrayed us. I don't understand how you sleep at night, knowing what you've said.

I hope the dementors come for you next.

[marauderstars]

JKR is now calling trans women “trans identified men” - while still somehow preaching about the ways that men police “femaleness.” JKR and her allies are the only ones who are allowed to gatekeep who and what counts as a woman, apparently. The hypocrisy here is multilayered - she rebukes someone who has a particular idea of what a woman is, and yet she herself has constructed a similarly limited idea of what a woman is - one that excludes trans women. But also - it’s not an accident that all the targets of this kind of transphobia (“protect women’s sport,” “protect women-only spaces,” “some trans women are abusers”) are trans women - not trans men. Under the guise of feminism, she denies the identities and rights of some of the most vulnerable and systemically oppressed women alive today. Trans women are women. To deny that because it doesn’t conform to your “sex-based” definition of womanhood - THAT is the very definition of misogyny.

[greencarnation]

[vavuska]

J. K. Rowling vs David Tennant: where is the truth and where the lies?

Probably everyone have read something about an unpopular opinion posted by J. K. Rowling on Twitter (cough, I mean X), where she decided to go after David Tennant. She claimed that during an interview Tennant was talking about whinging f**kers who need to just shut up. These whinging f**kers who he is referring to are women who’s rights are being oppressed, according to J. K. Rowling.

Unfortunately, Tennant didn't say anything against oppressed and abused women. Actually, Rowling is *again* pursuing her personal crusade claiming female-only = no trans-women. Tennant, after accepting an award, took the microphone and gave a speech about the state of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK, and the sad need for awards like the one he received (he was honored at the British LGBT Awards with Celebrity Ally award).

During the speech, Tennant also targeted UK Minister for Women and Equalities, Kemi Badenoch, who had previously said she would exclude trans-women from single-sex areas. Tennant said:

“I suppose if I’m honest I’m a little depressed by the fact that acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it as long as they’re not hurting anyone else should merit any kind of special or award or special mention because it’s common sense, isn’t it?” Tennant said in his speech. “It’s human decency. We shouldn’t live in a world where that is worth remarking on. However until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t exist anymore — I don’t wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up — whilst we do live in this world I am honoured to receive this.”

Tennant’s speech started a war of words with Badenoch, who later took to social media to say she would not shut up as the actor suggested. She went on to call Tennant “a rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.”

Which, again, is a... Ehm... Lie, since Tennant didn't attack Minister Badenoch for her ethnicity or threatened her life. Tennant speech was critical of her position regarding trans rights and not her personal life. Tennant was calling out government bigots for their political opinions regarding social issues and not attacking anyone on personal basis and NEVER - NEVER said anything about institutional racism (which Minister Badenoch herself claimed it's not a problem in UK) and violence against women (both cis and trans) not being major problems.

In a separate red carpet interview on the awards ceremony, Tennant was asked to say something to the trans youth. He responded to don't feel judged or unloved, because transphobic politicians are just a little minority: “It's a tiny bunch of little whinging f**kers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”

The whole interview is available under here and it's sweet and heartwarming:

As always, J. K. Rowling and conservative politicians are strumentalizing LGBTQ+ awareness contents to make the community and it's allies look like evil terrorists (“gender Taliban”) and therefore pursuing their anti-trans goals while also belittling abuse perpetrated on women in religious states and systemic racism. Since violence against women is overwhelmingly committed by cisgender men, why are the Tories blaming LGBTQ+ community and it's allies?

J. K. Rowling and Minister Badenoch demonstrated through their words, how danger narratives can be invoked not only to obscure (hetero) cis men’s violence and abuse against cis and trans women, but also justify violence against the whole LGBTQ + community in the holy name of (cis-hetero) women's safety. [Here my previous post about this]

[randomtheidiot]

I think something truly tragic about the UK is that every time they get a new strong female role model, she’s pure evil.

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

spop fans criticize authors like j.k rowling for declaring characters' sexualities offscreen, instead of showing it onscreen. but then they praise the crew-ra for lgbt and poc representation when more than half of those things were "confirmed" offscreen.

[neonebula]

And then you decided to use your mega platform voice to spew hatred against other humans.

Goodreads should remove her quote and replace it with someone who isn’t actively harming the trans community.

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[crazy-lizard-lover]

To replace the void of Harry Potter, we need a book with a similar plotline, except better. We fix the Swiss Cheese that is the world building, give dimension to the characters, and actively reject the stereotypes used in the book. To top it all off, we have TRANS INCLUSION by making the main character TRANSGENDER. Basically, we make a better written Harry Potter book with trans (and real gay) representation.

If this happens to exist, please give me the details

[crazycatsiren]

You see a nice post so you're curious about the poster, you check out their blog and they got Harry Potter house in bio. 😑

[ollywander]

J.K. Rowling is going to come out as trans one of these days and it’s going to be one of the funniest pieces of poetic irony of the era.

[aleksanderscult]

#I'm sorry but she's not even in the top 100 best YA authors for me

Definitely agree, and her adult stuff isn't better. But I'm wondering, who do you consider the best YA authors?

Unfortunately I haven't read many YA books. In the beginning I was so taken with them but as you grow older you start seeing their flaws and they age like milk (Shadow and Bone and Percy Jackson). So I've distanced myself from this genre for many years now and I can't remember much.

Personally I find the best one to be Suzanne Collins. She created a world that is almost a parallel to our own, with characters that you can sympathize with. And I liked her ending (is this an unpopular opinion or something?)

J. K. Rowling, a despicable person, somehow created characters whose emotions are so relatable and she dived into some dark themes with great insight. Although her books are full of problematic stuff as well. She's proof that a great artist can be an evil person.

Cassandra Clare is decent (?) I guess. She tends to overdramatize the romance and humor for no reason other than to make her fans go "aww" and she tends to repeat herself, as well as refuses to explain some motives and is very shallow at times.

[sammy-bammy]

Wouldn't the world be a better place if a nice writer (like Rick Riordan) wrote Harry Potter instead of Joanne Katheen Rowling

[lilysaus]

time for lilys rare, once-every-five-months hot take on current general opinions, and this one has to do with j k rowling and harry potter.

ive seen some really harsh things said about her, and ive done my own research, and you know what? youre all right. shes a horrible, awful, nasty excuse for a human being. she is. im not going to deny it and i never will. you wanna know something else? harry potter, despite some of the horrible things that j k rowling included within it, is still a great work of fiction.

there. ive said it. harry potter is a great work of fiction. now, that might just be my ignorant little two-year-old brain who grew up reading that series saying that, it might be that im just desperately clinging to my precious past that means so much to me, but still.

consider this: a person can be a terrible, awful person that no one likes and still create fairly good things. someone, such as j k rowling, can be awful and horrible and completely unlikeable and still be a fairly good author.

i mean, just look at the things that the harry potter fandom has created. the darker, more j-k-rowling-esque things included in the series havent stopped the fandom from finding things within the books to justify their silly little headcanons. there are so many things about the harry potter series that are actually so cool and amazing that i dont think we should just completely ignore it.

instead of never reading harry potter again, just dont buy new books. if youve never read it but really want to, borrow the books from someone. find some free pdf online. find them somewhere where you wont have to pay for j k rowlings sexist, racist, and homophobic agenda.

instead of buying the movies, go hang out with someone who already has them. ask your friends if they already have the harry potter movies and either borrow them or watch the movies together. go onto piracy websites, for crying out loud! thats right! im condoning piracy for this one! go watch them illegally! as long as you arent paying for it, i dont care!

and another thing! keep creating fan content for it! and not just any fan content! make the kind of content that will make j k rowling see red. make the kind of stuff thatll just grind her gears. make the kind of stuff thatll make her scream in anger at her phone when she sees it. fanfics, fanart, if you think of it, you should make it.

please, dont let the creator of the content decide who enjoys the content and how. just dont support the creator while you enjoy the content. do the kind of stuff thatll make her mad, but she cant do jack-shit about it. just dont bash on the content.

you shouldnt feel guilty for liking harry potter just because the author is a little shit. you shouldnt feel guilty for liking something you grew up on. because again, you dont have to like the author to like the book. you dont have to like the director to like the movie. you dont have to like the creator to like the content.

thank you for coming to my hot take. have a wonderful rest of your day.